Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Emergency department presentation time |
| METEOR identifier: | 746098 |
| Registration status: | Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 |
| Definition: | The time at which a patient presents to an emergency department for the delivery of service, expressed as hhmm. |
| Data Element Concept: | Emergency department stay—presentation time |
| Value Domain: | Time hhmm |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Time | |
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| Data type: | Date/Time | |
| Format: | hhmm | |
| Maximum character length: | 4 | |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Reference documents: | Standards Australia 2019. Date and time -- Representations for information interchange AS ISO 8061-1:2019 and 8061-2:2019, Standards Australia, NSW |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The time of patient presentation at the emergency department is the time of first recorded contact with an emergency department staff member. The first recorded contact can be the commencement of the clerical registration or triage process, whichever happens first. |
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| Collection methods: | Collected in conjunction with Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 22/03/2023 Supersedes Emergency department stay—presentation time, hhmm Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 22/03/2023 Is used in the formation of Emergency department stay—waiting time, total minutes NNNNN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 Is used in the formation of Non-admitted patient emergency department service episode—service episode length, total minutes NNNNN Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 See also Emergency department stay—presentation date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 20/10/2021 Tasmanian Health, Standard 22/03/2023 See also Health service event—presentation time, hhmm Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2022–23 Health, Superseded 07/02/2023 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2023–24 Health, Standard 07/02/2023 Non-admitted patient emergency department care NMDS 2024–25 Health, Qualified 08/09/2023 |